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Noted, was very fond of her. she gets out of harvard, she becomes a state senator in this state, where it's very difficult for a woman to succeed politically. what i'd suggest is that if this were a man in texas who had made this same assent and had this same narrative to share, everybody would be going, oh, my god, look at the sacrifices he made for his family to succeed and achieve and look at what he's done. instead, greg abbott's campaign, and the right, is trying to portray this as a woman who put ambition above her family. not the case, she raised her children. she and her husband had an...

Best week of her campaign. she shocked everybody by outraising greg abbott. she unveiled an education platform that got great press coverage all over texas. now we are seeing these sort of tried and true attacks that are, frankly, going to alienate the people that are identifying with that story. i think unless you can say to an audience, the way she can, that you have cut up a totinos pizza to make it last four meals so your kid could have the real food, you should probably just lead this story to the candidate who can tell it. this is going to turn off women, especially, that might have vote...

And you can see it in the way the right has run with this story. from drudge, texas abortion heroine lined about being a single teen mom. erick erickson, i await wendy davis' lawsuit. and john noulte tweets, interesting, as mainstream media destroys christie, new media is taking down wendy davis. joining me now, chris ball, co-host of msnbc's, "the cycle," which airs weekdays at 3:00 p.m. eastern. she was the democratic nominee for congress in virginia's first congressional district in the 2010 election. ben moore, former director of the pac progress texas, and co-author of "bush's brain: how ...

She was the democratic nominee for congress in virginia's first congressional district in the 2010 election. ben moore, former director of the pac progress texas, and co-author of "bush's brain: how karl rove made george w. bush president." how has the fallout in texas been around this story from wayne slater? >> i don't think there's been big fallout yet, chris. but, remember, we're talking, if you're a woman in this state and you've watched wendy's assent politically, you're watching somebody who did from the trailer park, whether if the csi forensic guys are saying, excuse me, ma'am, was it...

Obviously, they mishandled this. they had wendy come out and talk about using tighter language, and the usage of a term like that suggests that they're trying to manage or control a story or it's implied that there's something that doesn't need to be revealed. they need more transparency. they need to be more aggressive and more outfront. she has, as everybody knows, an amazing story, that appeals broadly to all of the suburban women in this state. and by greg abbott attacking that story, what he's doing is he's suggesting to every woman in texas, who is struggling, whether it's with their fam...